• One True Pants: Anniversary and Wake

    We’ve done it. The process has taken every bit of tensile strength OTP could muster. But the day has come. It’s official. OneTruePants are dead. Long live OneTruePants. At midnight tonight it will have been 365 days that the same pair of hemp pants have adorned my blessed lower half. (Heroic music begins as OTP [...]

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  • OTP Over the Hill

    The end of this glorious experiment is certainly in site. But don’t cry for me. I do have another pair of pants around somewhere (I’m sure of it. Pretty sure at least.) For those of you keeping up on Facebook or Twitter I hope you are still enjoying the madness, and I will carry on [...]

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  • OTP hitting their stride

    It has been almost 75 days of continuous wear for the onetruepants.  More importantly they have endured 11 machine washings.  I personally have only endured two, but that was enough for me.  Well, maybe one more… but I usually take the OTP off before washing them. After just shy of a dozen washings I feel [...]

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  • Hemp textile wholesalers in the U.S.

    The wholesale business for hemp in the United States is a small field.  Currently it host about five players: Eco Vigor, EnviroTextiles, Hemp Basics, Hemp Traders, and Pickering International.  Two of the leading retail clothiers also make their European hemp fabrics available: Rawganique and Ecolution. There simply isn’t much hemp fabric being made worldwide and [...]

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  • I take thee pants… until threadbare do us part

    …one true pants will remain on my body at all times with the following exceptions: sleeping, laundering, swimming, and any other activity requiring nudity…

    By Zimmermann through Deutsches Bundesarchiv
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One True Pants: Anniversary and Wake

We’ve done it. The process has taken every bit of tensile strength OTP could muster. But the day has come. It’s official. OneTruePants are dead. Long live OneTruePants. At midnight tonight it will have been 365 days that the same pair of hemp pants have adorned my blessed lower half. (Heroic music begins as OTP [...]

cell pocket

OTP Over the Hill

The end of this glorious experiment is certainly in site. But don’t cry for me. I do have another pair of pants around somewhere (I’m sure of it. Pretty sure at least.) For those of you keeping up on Facebook or Twitter I hope you are still enjoying the madness, and I will carry on [...]

450px-Cat_washing_mashing

OTP hitting their stride

It has been almost 75 days of continuous wear for the onetruepants.  More importantly they have endured 11 machine washings.  I personally have only endured two, but that was enough for me.  Well, maybe one more… but I usually take the OTP off before washing them. After just shy of a dozen washings I feel [...]

hemp-fabric

Hemp textile wholesalers in the U.S.

The wholesale business for hemp in the United States is a small field.  Currently it host about five players: Eco Vigor, EnviroTextiles, Hemp Basics, Hemp Traders, and Pickering International.  Two of the leading retail clothiers also make their European hemp fabrics available: Rawganique and Ecolution. There simply isn’t much hemp fabric being made worldwide and [...]